A fourteen-hour discussion among the world’s leading academic psychologists, sociologists, biologists, anthropologists, and philosophers ended in consensus on a new definition of what it means to be human. “I don’t want to sound grandiose, but someday people will look back and see this discussion as a turning point in human history,” said one participant.
Read More...What’s It Worth to Ya?
Imagine there’s no government-funded law enforcement. Now, say you have a healthy income and substantial assets and real property. How much would you pay for police protection? You say you don’t believe government ever does anything well. Fair enough. How much do you expect to pay private security firms in the next year to make up for the lack of a criminal justice system?
Read More...Belief in misleading ideas
is nothing to be ashamed of. It’s called optimism.
Read More...All’s fair
in love and preschool drop-off.
Read More...I had a thought yesterday.
It coalesced into a void.
Read More...Why do you always talk about karma
when someone else is being an asshole?
Read More...Research shows wide gap in incomes and happiness of fans of the band the Replacements compared to fans of the band R.E.M.
Co-authors Hanphram T. Zennels and Moira Beverley have found that fans of R.E.M. earn $4,400 more, annually, than fans of The Replacements. However, Replacements fans exhibit far greater levels of happiness, shaped by what the authors called “their ability to see everything that is bad, and good, be aware of all that, and realize that life is what obtains, not what should obtain. …”
Read More...How The Stoneslide Corrective Got Its Name
I like rocks. I like piling them in stone walls and the dull clonks they make when they fall together. I like hauling them from place to place in a wheelbarrow. I like how heavy and damned hard they are to budge. I like their unyielding disregard.
Read More...The Stoneslide was waiting for a walk light
along a busy street. The sun was high, its light and heat intense. A gentle breeze cooled Stoneslide’s fellow pedestrians, about twenty in number, as everyone waited.
One person was telling her friend how she and her husband had just got a rescue dog.
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